Cochran supports bill to update campaign finance disclosures

5:41 PM,
Mar. 15, 2013

Thad Cochran

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Even though most services are now online, from bank statements to brokerage accounts, members of the U.S. Senate continue to file campaign finance reports the old fashioned way: on paper.

This practice leads to delays in the information being made available to the public, renders them electronically unsearchable and costs the U.S. government an estimated $500,000 a year to process.

Sens. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana, and Thad Cochran, a Republican from Mississippi, want to change that. They recently teamed up on a letter urging colleagues to support a bill Tester introduced that ...